Hard disagree with the bottom two, but a santoku, a regular-ass chef's knife (Japanese, or German when a Japanese one's unavailable), and a super sharp paring knife do me just fine. Cooked professionally for 2 decades with just those.

A filet knife and a cleaver I used very rarely, but were something the restaurants always had kicking around, because no one Smeagols one of those like we do our preciouses.

Edit: did GR say which 3 he meant?

As a chef I feel like I have to say that a lot of these are wrong (or are weird choices,anyway), but the bottom one is chefs kiss.

Gross; Vancouver's where I keep my stuff!:( Like my cat and my body and my home. I don't want apologists like this in my city.

Producers too, like music producers I mean. Though I can only speak to that field personally, it might be a similar situation, so I'll share.

Well actually, I mean I guess it's two things- one is that a male-dominated field with a lot of egos involved can pretty easily develop in a snooty direction. STEM careers are famous for that as well. It blows.

The second thing, the thing I was initially going to mention is that at least in the case of producing, there is an epic shitton of information you need to learn to do it well/properly, for starters. Even to just make your first piece, you need to actually STUDY it. That attracts two different archetypes, and the one that sucks is the overwhelming majority. :(

So, as you can probably imagine it's super easy to find courses/tutorials online to learn stuff; you can find the whole field plus music theory on YouTube for free. The problem is that a lot of beginners don't bother to do that, and/or don't think they'll need to. Unfortunately, it's these lazy fucking casuals that saturate all our "ask someone who knows" spaces with asinine, uniformed nonsense questions.

So you see, by the time you see a question from a legitimate learner, sometimes even a peer, you're so annoyed by the other sort that you can't sort them.

That's not fair to the legitimate learners, of course (and as someone who is not yet a full-on expert, I've been on the wrong end of this myself), but thats the sad state of things.

"Growing a thicker skin", or so I'm told, is the only solution. :(

One time, I had to have IV antibiotics for a dental infection, which meant having to be at the hospital for like a half hour every four hours, which sucked. After a couple days of this, praying to get switched to tablets, a doc finally saw me.

He walks into the room where I was waiting and the first thing he said was, "so, how about we try oral?", and I was like, "slow down, doc, I just met you." 😂

Swear to god, it did mot register whatsoever that I had made a joke. He responded like I had said slow down the switch to oral medication! I guess maybe he could have just been embarrassed and was trying to duck the moment, but idk. I thought it was a solid joke.

Though to be fair, Maynard does vary a lot from project to project, even if not from track to track. Also to be fair, though a lot of Tool songs sound alike, they all sound like the same GOOD song.

(Had to defend Maynard because we share a birthday, and I love having arbitrary reasons for doing things/making decisions. Redman, Jennifer Garner and Posh Spice are in the same birthday club, though I (arbitrarily) disregard criticism of Posh Spice.)

I would much rather the men wear themselves out with a physical activity before coming home, actually. Otherwise they get pretty cranky come bedtim, after playing fake racing games on their Xbox all day.

Mine does that anyway.

This sword is enchanted with fire magic!

...The handle is made of super flammable material, though, and a bunch of people got third degree burns trying to weild it. There was a massive recall.

You know what "recall" means, though? Collector's item! These are rare af.

So that one speaker took over for the entire world when we were done playing it 24/7, collectively?

That's kind of inspiring. You go little speaker! ☺️

Muscles don't keep you warm in freezing ocean water! Blubber does that.

...Man I wish I had a bulletproof excuse like that.

I see a lot of people pointing out how autism is a spectrum disorder, so it would have a bunch of different presentations already.

That's true of course, but spectrum disorders typically have a set of core symptoms, and regardless of your particular presentation you need to experience all or most of them to meet the criteria for an affirmative diagnosis.

For example, My partner and I both have ADHD; the two opposing classic "types", (inattentive and hyperactive). There are a number of symptoms that relate to his type that don't apply to me, and vice versa. We also have different ways we've grown up trying to compensate for our symptoms, so they have different effects on us.

Undeniably though, we both experience all 7 core symptoms.

If scientists are making this claim, they must be saying that their research on ASD suggests they found there to be no definite core symptoms.

It would be crazy dumb otherwise to announce their findings studying a spectrum disorder, if their findings were, "it appears to be a spectrum disorder".😂

Hm...I don't know. I think terrible names are popular enough presently that when the generation being born right now is school-aged, a McKeinsleigh will probably need to use a last initial in class to not get her confused with the other one(s).